13 Matching Annotations
  1. Mar 2022
    1. To struggle up a never-ending stair

      This is similar to the hurdles we face in life. It is never-ending like the waves in an ocean. Continuous without an end goal. Similar to our desires.

    2. I doubt not God is good, well-meaning, kind, And did He stoop to quibble could tell why

      The poet believes God to be good and empathic, even when there is a contradiction he does so with a reason .

    1. Praise this mess          that can be left

      The poet contradicts himself throughout the poem. he praises the hospital yet focuses to highlight its flaws.

    2. Praise the going home        to beds unmade        for days Beds that won’t resurrect        or rise

      After they leave the hospital, adjusting to their normal life is not easy. Even the slightest object reminds them of their stay at the hospital. How the beds don't move or have to be adjusted for the child anymore.

    3. Praise the front desk        who knows to wake        Rm 120 when the hospital rings

      The hotel next to the hospital is composed of guests mainly from the hospital. It is normal for the front desk to know which room to contact. A process well to know due to their location.

    4. Praise the restless beds Praise the beds that do not adjust      that won’t lift the head to feed

      The poet praises the bed for the things it is incapable of. It fails to meet the basic necessities that are required for the patients at the hospital.

    1. O my body! I dare not desert the likes of you in other men and women, nor the likes of the parts of you,

      He compares himself to others and expresses how he would not deface or cause harm to his body, unlike other people who corrupt themselves. He further goes on to appreciate and visualize the shapes and figures of another person. However, stating how he is unique and perhaps sees the flaws in other people but chooses not to accept his own.

    2. I knew a man, a common farmer, the father of five sons, And in them the fathers of sons, and in them the fathers of sons.

      The repetitive use of "father of sons" shows how he sees the common farmer as the father of sons, but also sees the same picture when he looks at the sons. He sees them becoming fathers and their children becoming fathers to sons as well. It is a continuous cycle that carries on.

    3. Was it doubted that those who corrupt their own bodies conceal themselves?

      The poet expresses how people tend to conceal and hide their true selves from others. When corrupted with evil thoughts and desires they choose not to openly display it because of the fear of being looked down on by others.

    1. For—put them side by side— The one the other will contain

      The poet compares the two showing us how they are related, it goes hand in hand, since both are never-ending spaces the other can contain it in its whole.

    2. The Brain—is wider than the Sky—

      This line expresses how there is no limit to our brain just as there is no limit to the sky. It does not have a point where it begins nor ends it's a bottomless pit.